Hitachi Energy, has signed a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate how utility and energy-intensive companies deploy cloud-based solutions and advance the energy transition.
The initial focus of the agreement delivers Hitachi Vegetation Manager, an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven vegetation management system, on AWS. This innovative solution aims to significantly reduce power or system outages caused by vegetation interference with critical infrastructure.
Hitachi Vegetation Manager, a closed-loop digital vegetation management system, leverages a powerful combination of AI, satellite imagery, and real-time weather forecasts to deliver predictive insights that help customers proactively identify and mitigate vegetation interference and risks. By predicting potential threats before they cause outages, the system is built to drastically reduce downtime, enhance service reliability, and lower maintenance expenditures.
Commenting on the dimension of the solution, Massimo Danieli, Managing Director of Hitachi Energy’s Business Unit Grid Automation, said, “Our focus goes beyond manufacturing and installation of advanced grid technology. We also deliver a diverse portfolio of core digital solutions, like Hitachi Vegetation Manager, to ensure energy systems run at peak performance. The grid is becoming more complex with the addition of renewables, as well as increasing demand for electrification driven by AI, EVs, and beyond. Our collaboration with AWS now allows us to harness the power of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, making this technology readily accessible to operators worldwide.”
Hitachi and AWS are building on prior collaborations. Most recently, Hitachi Energy and AWS successfully delivered a cloud-based network management solution for Conduit Power, slashing deployment time from 18 to 6 months.
